Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . tera trial of three years Mr. Wood retired from thefirm, leasing a mill in the southern part of thetown, and continued in the same line of time went on and success attended his efforts,he added other mills, even as far away as the stateof Rhode Island. In the year 1876 Mr. Wood pur-chased the mill at Quinapoxet, in the town of Hol-den. he having had an interest there for two ormore years previous to that date, the mill beingop
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . tera trial of three years Mr. Wood retired from thefirm, leasing a mill in the southern part of thetown, and continued in the same line of time went on and success attended his efforts,he added other mills, even as far away as the stateof Rhode Island. In the year 1876 Mr. Wood pur-chased the mill at Quinapoxet, in the town of Hol-den. he having had an interest there for two ormore years previous to that date, the mill beingoperated by Wood & Ward. This same year he alsopurch;isid the Lovell Woolen Companys mill inHolden. and for many years operated both mills,combining them as one plant. About two hundredhands were employed and over one hundred andtwenty-five thousand yards of satinet was manu-factured each month at this plant. In February,1882, a postofifice was established at Quinapoxet, withCyrus (^irout Wood as Thus from a small beginning,we have followedthe career of the subject of this sketch onward andupward. That he experienced trials and met with. *«ps?sy«^?Siiijg?!?^-<:»r- !
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